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Alfred Fowler

1868 - 1940

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Alfred Fowler, CBE FRS (22 March 1868, in Yorkshire – 24 June 1940) was an English astronomer and spectroscopist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Fowler is the 244th most popular astronomer (up from 297th in 2019), the 2,021st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,422nd in 2019) and the 33rd most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Alfred Fowler ranks 244 out of 644. Before him are Paul Wild, Rudolf Wolf, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, Cleomedes, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann, and Josep Comas i Solà. After him are Benjamin Baillaud, Charles T. Kowal, Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji, Margherita Hack, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, and James Ferguson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Alfred Fowler ranks 96. Before him are Jaan Tõnisson, Robert W. Wood, Francesco Saverio Nitti, Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern, Evelyn Beatrice Hall, and Josep Comas i Solà. After him are Lauri Ingman, Otto von Lossow, Cai Yuanpei, Carl Brockelmann, Hélène de Pourtalès, and Max Slevogt. Among people deceased in 1940, Alfred Fowler ranks 78. Before him are Ivane Javakhishvili, Thomas Heath, Olga Boznańska, Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Lewis Hine, and José Félix Estigarribia. After him are Udham Singh, K. B. Hedgewar, Madeleine Astor, Cai Yuanpei, Arthur Rostron, and Édouard Branly.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alfred Fowler ranks 2,021 out of 8,785. Before him are Alan Walker (1997), Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854), Wallace Hartley (1878), Herbert Pitman (1877), Andrew Parker Bowles (1939), and Alexander McQueen (1969). After him are J. Stuart Blackton (1875), James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (1812), Lindsay Duncan (1950), Don Thompson (1933), W. Ross Ashby (1903), and Mark Sykes (1879).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Alfred Fowler ranks 33. Before him are George Mary Searle (1839), Nevil Maskelyne (1732), John Bevis (1695), Francis Baily (1774), Edward L. G. Bowell (1943), and Robert T. A. Innes (1861). After him are James Ferguson (1710), Edward Walter Maunder (1851), Philibert Jacques Melotte (1880), Harold Spencer Jones (1890), Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838), and Richard Christopher Carrington (1826).

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